Watch again: Rishi Sunak faces Prime Minister's Questions as senior Tory calls for his resignation
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Published 2024-01-24
Sir Simon Clarke, who served in the Treasury while the now-prime minister was chancellor, said that Mr Sunak "is leading the Conservatives into an election where [they] will be massacred".
"If we change the leader to a prime minister who shares the instincts of the majority and is willing to lead the country in the right direction, we will recover strongly in 2024," the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland wrote in the Telegraph.
Other senior Tories have warned against more damaging infighting before the public go to the polls this year.
Home secretary James Cleverly said it would be “foolish” to have further dissent within the party, arguing that it would leave the door open to Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour party.
Former defence secretary Ben Wallace echoed Mr Cleverly in dismissing Sir Simon’s call to oust Mr Sunak.
"Division and another PM would lead to the certain loss of power," he said.
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All Comments (21)
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The army asking why they can't get recruits, I mean who would risk their life for this lot?
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Faced a bunch of questions. Answered exactly none of them, as usual.
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I make no apologies for saying that Prime Minister's Questions is so childish that my great granddaughter would would see through it and laugh !!!
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A complete circus of entitled spoiled brats We pay for those scammers
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If these lot spent as much time looking after the country as they do slatting each other, this country would be utopia!
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Watch this uniParty pantomime, watch!
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They both say "never again", and yet it is happening "again" before the world's eyes, but they both refuse to see it for what it is, and just look the other way.
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Does he answer any questions , NO !
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Im only 8 minutes in, but why do they even have these "debates"? Not a single question/accusation is answered or addressed. Every response coming out of Rishi makes it sound like the worst roast battle ever. Peak whataboutism.
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Treat dentists and doctors in a decent way and they wouldn’t go!
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Sunak sounds like he knows he’s on the way out. Atkins sat next to him like a nodding dog.
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Absolute pantomime full of clowns
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How has this great country descended to this?
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It’s like a football stadium.
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Sunak......Things are improving !!!!! AHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAH.......
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Sunak is such a lying snide
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee do not represent me, they are both different sides of the same coin. The US is the real power in the UK, we have lost our independence.
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Things are improving are thet sunak? Funny because we haven't felt any change at all 😂
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WHERES THE HOLOCAUST ITS IN GAZA AND WEST BANK !!!!
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The man who were drinking wine and champagne during the lickdown speaks about crine.
